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The Benzie-Leelanau District Health Department COVID-19 update: 2-18-2021
Feb. 18, 2021
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BENZIE AND LEELANAU COUNTIES Today there were two new cases of COVID-19 reported in Benzie County and three new cases of COVID-19 reported in Leelanau County.
Across the state, nearly 2.3 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered with more than 11% of Michigan residents receiving their first dose. As of Feb. 15, the Benzie Leelanau District Health Department has administered 3,769 doses with more than 15% of residents in the district who have received their first dose.
This week, more than 600 doses will be administered in Benzie and Leelanau counties. As of today, here is where the department is currently:
By Steve Foley, spfoley@petoskeynews.com
Petoskey News Review
The Health Department of Northwest Michigan has identified the first case of the new COVID-19 variant otherwise known as the U.K or B117 variant in its four-county jursidiction.
The health department was notified late Sunday, Feb. 7, of the first case in an adult male in Charlevoix County. The case was identified through active surveillance by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services.
Case investigation and contact tracing have been completed and no new cases of the variant have been identified in the Northern Michigan region at this time, the health department said.
Credit Taylor Wizner
Public health officials say the positivity rate, hospitalizations and new Covid cases are all trending downward.
Current cases are close to where they were before Covid spiked in northern Michigan last fall, says Munson’s Chief Medical Officer Christine Nefcy.
“For the last two days we’ve been below 5% [positivity] and we have not been there since October,” she says. “It’s really great news.”
There are more than 24,000 cases in the region and more than 622,000 cases in the state, as of Wednesday.
Munson has about half as many Covid patients as a month ago.
“I think the mitigation efforts that our local and state health departments put into place have been 100% effective,” Nefcy says.